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01 Aug

Making Manga 7

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Today in our making manga series we are going to talk about writing dialogue. Dialogue is essential to convey conversations in your manga. For graphic noise I am in the process of writing the novel that will contain the story. When you write dialogue for a novel you have more space and time to convey your thoughts. This is not always the case in manga, you need to distill the dialogue down to its essential parts to ensure there is…..

15 Jul

Making Manga – Part 6

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Today in our making manga series we are going to talk a little about creating a storyboard. This process has a few terms for it, including a “name.” I went to art school and took a storyboarding class and I write novels so I know how to write a story. When writing the dialogue and story information for the grydscaen graphic novel – volume 1, I initially did a storyboard for the first 6 chapters. I started out just sketching. Mapping…..

15 Jul

Making Manga – Part 5

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So in today’s making manga we are going to talk about tools. But before that I wanted to talk Doujinshi vs Manga. In Japan to be a mangaka you need to be published in a magazine, a serial magazine like the famous Shonen Jump. You can enter a contest, get feedback, get picked up, get an editor, draw your manga and get noticed, maybe even if you are popular get an anime. Doujinshi is amateur art of maybe someone else’s…..

14 Jul

Making Manga – Part 4

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For our making manga series today, we are talking about character pairing and sketching. One of the first drawings for the manga graphic noise was an image of Shiro Ijima, the best selling scifi author of the Fissure series and the indie manga artist Noiz with his manga Disaster Code (on the left). Before we could think about a cover or the character sketches we had to get the basic idea down for Shiro and Noiz. I wanted Shiro to…..

12 Jul

Making Manga – Part 2

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In the novel and manga creation process one of the things that you have to do at the outset is world building. I just started writing chapter 4 of the novel “graphic noise” which will also be turned into a manga. The two main characters are Shiro Ijima, the best selling scifi author and the other character is Noiz, the manga artist. The story is set in Manhattan in the present. Usually I write scifi set in a post-apocalyptic future,…..

09 Jul

Making Manga – Part 1

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So I am working on a new manga and novel called “graphic noise” which is a yaoi manga about an indie manga artist and a best selling science fiction author who meet at AnimeFest, a comic convention. The story is set in New York City and will as much explore the particular culture of Manhattan like the subway, bike messengers, Central Park, Grand Central Station and the Javitz Convention Center as it will be a story about two artists getting…..

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